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Amazon's Alexa will soon be able to act as a home intercom system, delivering voice or video to various rooms in your home. To talk to someone in another room, say the name of the device you want to receive the message. ...

VB EVENT: The magic of machine learning is its ability to uncover patterns to return astonishing results. Things get dark when suddenly you realize that those sophisticated machine learning-powered recommendation engines...

GUEST: AI research has long been the domain of universities, public institutions, and large corporations. Thanks to some amazing developments in the field over the past few years (and a whole lot of hype), every startup,...

The future of iOS is here -- sort of. After sharing early builds with developers, Apple has deemed the next big iOS update (iOS 11) ready for the broader beta-testing public. If you want to risk putting the unfinished so...

This worry motivates AOL co-founder Steve Case: America’s prosperity could be at risk if venture capital continues to flow to Silicon Valley and other elite tech hubs at the expense of the rest of the country. An econo...

Working from home makes meetings meaningful, gives me scheduling flexibility, and lets me tackle a variety of projects.

GUEST: Since we started building bots at KeyReply more than two years ago, the industry has seen massive interest and change. This makes it hard for companies and customers to figure out what’s really happening — so ...

Leadership interview with Clarke Miyasaki, Stance.

A new report by SEMRush reveals some interesting insights about Google ranking factors in 2017. Here are 5 particularly interesting things we've learned.

ANALYSIS: Alphabet has signed an agreement with Avis Budget Group to manage Waymo’s fleet of self-driving minivans in Phoenix, the latest in a wave of partnerships between companies seeking their footing in the market ...

LinkedIn hurts their user experience by notifying users of nonevents.

Cannes Lions 2017 has long been a gathering for the leadership of the advertising and media industries. But time well spent at this year's event produced a series of broader life lessons that should resonate far beyond t...

Here's where influencer marketing is headed in 2017 and beyond.

Canada has always been on the map for U.S. activists, there is increased interest from U.S. activists, likely spurred by a weak Canadian dollar and a target-rich environment for funds from other countries looking for new...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) online fundraising platform JustGiving has been acquired by Blackbaud, a U.S.-based software and services provider for not-for-profit organizations. Blackbaud is paying £95 million ($120 million) to p...

Square Enix’s mobile role-playing game Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius is celebrating the first anniversary of its worldwide launch, which happened on June 29, 2016. The free-to-play app has hit over 23 million downloads s...

News and insights for business owners from around the Web, including hundreds of manufacturers head to Arkansas for Walmart's version of "Shark Tank."

Nintendo announced that the Super Nintendo Entertainment System Classic Edition will hit retail on September 29 for $80. It will come with 21 games on its hard drive, including classics like Super Mario World, The Legend...

By transforming purpose and storytelling from overused buzzwords into critical tools that can help shape and define business strategy, any brand can operationalize thought leadership to achieve desired outcomes.

If you want your content production to succeed online, you can't do it without the help of SEO. However, it takes some skill and strategy to leverage this powerful process, but if you follow these 7 tips to master SEO fo...

Like all of us, executives who have exited a company, either voluntarily or involuntarily, need to move on to the next stage in their careers. Unlike most of us, these people have damaged reputations that need rebuilding...

Understanding Intellectual Property (IP) is essential to starting and growing a business. Your products, technologies, and creative work could be protected by four types of Intellectual Property Law: copyright, trademark...